Spring chores include putting up our lay down fence on the mountain. These stretches of lay down fence are along the stock drive road. We put them up first since people are taking their livestock up along these stock drives. The fences are put up in a unique way.
Remove the nail and shove the barbed wire against the post and reinsert the nail to hold it in place. We lay the fence down because huge snowdrifts lay along this fence, and the weight of the snow will break the wires, an expensive and time consuming chore to repair.
This is the “new” section Brandon built a few years ago and those brackets and nails are SWEET. In the older section, two fence staples are used for an upper and lower bracket, with a third staple in place of the nail. Staples are not near so strong as the bracket and they often fall out. But it works.
The wires are often loose or broken and Vernon repairs them.
We’ve done this a time or two together. It didn’t take us too long to knock this chore out.
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I really like the nail one — kind of elegant in its simplicity. Do the wires just break from the weight of the snow laying on them or from animals walking on them, or can you tell?